From 5a831f07773690a89b8b0f6a6022f5e838f0c7ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Perkins
Second, the 64-bit Windows x64 installer (.exe
) should be downloaded.
This should be extracted using the previous standalone executable.
mkdir %USERPROFILE%\opt\7zip
-cd %USERPROFILE%\opt\7zip
+mkdir %LocalAppData%\Programs\7zip
+cd %LocalAppData%\Programs\7zip
%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\7zr.exe x %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\7z2201-x64.exe
The 7zip path can then be added to the %PATH%
environment variable.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Then the Wix dark.exe command should be used to extract the VC_redi
Download and run the msys2-x86_64-*.exe
installer.
-Install to a directory that you have write access to, e.g. under %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64
.
+Install to a directory that you have write access to, e.g. under %LocalAppData%\Programs\msys64
.
Run the MSYS2 UCRT64 launcher.
UCRT64 is Microsoft's Universal C Runtime Library and is the preferred build environment on modern (Windows 10 and above) Windows operating systems.
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ For more information, see Env
Update the MSYS2 environment with pacman -Syu
and then install the toolchain package group with pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain
.
This will install all of the build tools including gcc
, g++
, and mingw32-make
, plus the libstdc
and libstdc++
libraries.
-Finally, add %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64\ucrt64\bin
to the %PATH%
environment variable.
+Finally, add %LocalAppData%\Programs\msys64\ucrt64\bin
to the %PATH%
environment variable.
A profile can be added to Windows Terminal with the following settings:
@@ -110,15 +110,15 @@ This will install all of the build tools including gcc
, g++
Command line:
- %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64
+ %LocalAppData%\Programs\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64
Starting directory:
- %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64\home\%USERNAME%
+ %LocalAppData%\Programs\msys64\home\%USERNAME%
Icon:
- %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64\ucrt64.ico
+ %LocalAppData%\Programs\msys64\ucrt64.ico
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ This can be used by the built-in Windows OpenSSH client by adding an Inclu
The following can be put into a batch file named vim.cmd
in the %PATH%
to make it easier to launch without pulling in all the other programs:
@ECHO OFF
-"%USERPROFILE%\opt\vim\vim90\vim.exe" %*
+"%LocalAppData%\Programs\vim\vim90\vim.exe" %*